30 Years Wed~ Moores Give Dinner Dance Majiy Attend Elaborate Af fair in New Ballromu of the Plaza Hotel, Which U FUJed With Roses Mrs. J. A. Burden Returns Head of Women's Commit? tee for Legion's Concert Announces Patronesses Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moore cele brated their thirtieth wedding anni versary last evening by giving a dinner and dance at the Plaza Hotel. The new ballroom was used, nnd the deco rations consisted of American Beauty Roses. There was dancing between the courses ard after tho dinner. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. tV. B. IV: ry. Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Sin clair, Mr. and Mrs.'H. L. Hotchkiss. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Band, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Band. Mrs. Fames A. Burden, who has been qua sh poting for the last week at the Alamai ce Club, of Burlington, N. C has returned and resumed her work as the head of the women's committee for thi Ai can Legion's benefit concert next Sunday evening at the Hippo crme. Mrs. burden announces that the following women have consented to act a? pal ronesses : Mrs. Francis R. Appleton, Mrs F McNei! Bacon, Mrs. Robert Bacon Mrs :"':: ? ?', ? D- Barnes. Mrs. C. Ledyard Blair Mrs. vvalter I'helps Bliss Mrs Robert S. Brewster, Mrs. Nicholas F* Brady, Mrs. \\ illiams.A. M. Burden, Mrs' Jj ' o, Mrs W. Bourke CockranJ Mrs - orbin, Mrs. Paul i). Cravath ; Mrs ' ' '?'? Curtis, Mrs. w. Bayard < t! ? ..-. Mrs. Henry P. Davison, Mrs ; K- Draper, Mrs. John R ; '?'?? ??' Ernesto (,. Fabbri, Mrs ? ? IV. ] ish, Mrs. Harry Harkness I ? ig'i r Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, Mrs Griswold. Mrs. Daniel Gug genhi ? . Mrs. W. Pierson Hamilton,' Mrs nry Hammond, Mrs Mont gomm Hare, Mrs. E. H. Harriman. Mrs 01iv? 1: irriman, Mr.;. J. Borden Harri? man, Mrs. Edward N. House. Mrs. Lvdijr Ho;.:. Mrs. Charles E. Hughes, Mrs | Adrian [s< in, Mrs. Arthur Iselin, Mrs. , * ' ' ? Mrs. Walter B. James, " Gould Jennings, Mrs Wal? ter Jennings, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn. Mrs 1 K< logg, Miss Ruth King, Mrs. tt'ifliam C. Langley, Mrs. Lewis rd, Mrs. Goodhtre Living Irs. .;. . .; Magee, Mrs. Ogden ?'? ,;: ? Ambros ? M? nell, Misa Ruth VV ashing by Weight ? your weekly poiled basket over to the ^ allach Laundry and enjoy th( benents of our SEMI-READY DRY STARCH WORK . - tem ive lian lle the < n : .?'? al 13 cents per V.' wa: h, Htan i; Ironlng all flat work. ???'?:? for sprln Lllng ;.:>.i -' a ;. ? : o ??. n i ??:.'. enl( ni ?? this system and sea what you T lephone rizza 1S5 'or further partioulars. \^ allach Laundry 330-332 East 59th Street ' ? ? h Sl ore or Ro ; e Man near your home." NOW ON VIEW TO TIME OF IX ';i STRH :???.{> PUBLIC SAI.E IN THE Commodore Art Gallery HOTFL COMMODORE BLDG. LEXINGTON AVENUE BETWKEN 43ND AXD 43RD STS. 150 VALUABLE OSL PAINTINGS from the estate cf the late DANIEL McCABE ?nd others. Munger, Moran, Wiegand, Wilson, Cowell, Oddie, i>ecker, Hiil, F. Gilbert, Wyant, Bierstadt, L. M. Davies, J. C. Thom, etc, etc. TO Itl SOl.D WITHOX'T RESERVE TO-DAY, Wed., Feb. 25, Thursday, Feb. 2S, at 2.30 P. M. JOHN MOSKOW, Auctioneer 'MrTC' S*r8^J1,,a,M Fe?owe* Morgan i Mrs. Richard Mortimer, Mrs. H. Fair | held Osborn, Mrs. William Church Os j born. Mrs. George B. Post. Mrs. Harold ' wuft*. lr*^' Mrs' John T- Pratt, Mrs. I Aii aW ,Rrui' ,Mrs' ?Kc,cn R?W, Mrs. Allan Apploton Robbins, Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, Mrs. Ralph Sanger I S-6 Hir,fert L' Satterlee, Mrs. Charles |J;.,?.enff? Mrs- Malcolm I). Sloane, Mrs. William Douglas Sloane. Mrs. William Sloane, Mrs. Charles Steele, Mrs. Archi bald G. Thacher, Miss Eraily Trovor, : Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Van idcrb.lt Webh, Mrs. W. Seward Webb, i Miss Mary Hoyt Wihorg, Mrs. Henry : Rogers Winthrop and Mrs. Harrv j Payne Whitney. General Pershing will be the guest of honor and the artists will be Mary Carden and John McCor mack. Mr and Mrs. E. Parmalec Prontice are already making their summer plans, and have arranged to close their town house about the middle of April and go to their country home at Williamstown, Mass.< . , j Mr. and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop have been spcnding a few days at their ; country place at Westburv, L. I? and I Mr- and Mrs. E. Roland N. Harriman I at the Harriman estate at Arden, N. Y. ! Miss Gertrude Theresa Planten, ! daughter of Mr. a;id Mrs. II. RolfT ? Planten, will be married at her par | ents' home. 207 Carlton Avenue. Hrook i lyn, this evening to Laird Curtis Dins | more. The bride is a granddaugn ter of the late .lohn Rutger Planten, who for forty years was Consul Gen? eral for the Netherlands in New York. Mrs. Harold J. Babbidge will be her sis ter's matron of honor and Miss Ger ' trude Estenche-id her maid of honor. She will have four other attendants, ; Mrs. Herbert Wcsley Reid, Miss Marion Bernard, Miss Fiorence Chase, of Brook? lyn, and Mjss Schlesier, of Forest Hills. Dr. Ward Kenfrew will serve as best man and Lawrence K. Harper, Kemsen Holbert, Harold J. Babbidge and EUs worth Harris as ushcrs. The ceremony will be, performed by the Rev. Dr. Charles Carroll Albertson. Mr. Dimsmoro, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Dinsmore, was in the naval reserve during the war. j He was graduated in 1914 from Prince ton. Miss Planten was graduated from the Packard Institute in 1917 and did active war work. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Whitelaw, of 47 Claremont Avenue, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Norma Whitelaw, to Dr. Wallace A. Pratt, of Walla Walla, Wash. Miss Whitelaw served during the war with the Y. M. C. A. in this country and also in France and Germany. For sev? eral years she was a member of the Art Students League. Dr. Pratt was graduated from the University of To ronto and in 1917 entered the medical corps of the A. E. F., with the rank of captain. He returned from Germany with the 1st Division last autumn and has been taking post graduate work in surgery in this city since demobiliza tion. He is a son of Mrs. Alexander Pratt, of Coburg, Can. The wedding will take place. late in March. At the residence of Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, 69 East Seventv-ninth Street, the Lenten Sewing Class, which works for the Nursery and Child's Hospital, will have its first mceting of the season to-morrow morning at 11 o'cloek. Some of the new members this year are Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Edward J. Peaslce, Mrs. J. Wray Cleveland, Mrs. Chester Griswold, Mrs. Auerbach, Mrs. Rubin W. Howes, Mrs. William Alex? ander, Mrs. Stuart Duncan, Miss Eleanor Le Roy, Mrs. E. J. Berwind, Mrs. B. C. Porter, Mrs. Frederick Pear son, Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Falls, Mrs. .Irimes L. Barclay, Miss Martha S. Bowers, Mrs. Eugenc Du Bois, Mrs. F. .^shton , J /, "'"' * **W*S? � Miss Suzanna Pierson As she appeared at the fancy dress ball given by the Cocoanuts at the Palm Beach Country Club a few days ago. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Pierson jr? of this city. dle was Miss Mary L. Duke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin N. Duke. Mrs. Charles Hendcrson Bradlcy jr. will give a reception with music at her home. in West, Seventy-ninth Street, Saturday afternoon for her debutant niece, Miss Beatrice Miller. Miss Miller is the daughter of Nathaniel Miller, of Cleveland. The American Ambassador to Italy, Robert Underwood Johnson, and Mrs. Johnson, gave a luncheon yesterday at their home, 327 Lexington Avenue, in honor of the Italian Ambassador and the Baroness Romano Avezzano. Mr. and Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Ham? ilton have postponed their trip to Eu? rope until next month. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Livingston have returned to the city from Miami. Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly will frive a luncheon to-day at her house in Fifth Avenue. Mrs. Charles B. Ward Hostess at Capital Tea W ives of Members of New York Congressional Delegation As? sist al Brilliant Function i From The Tribune's Washinpton Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. ? Mrs.' Charles B. Ward entortained at a large ' tea this afternoon at the Congressional Club. The ballroom was decorated I with roses and a profusion of spring flowers, in which red predominated, and : smilax fastooned the walls. Those assisting at the tea table in cluded Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs. : William M. Calder, Mrs. Medill Mc- : Cormick, Mrs. Thomas B. Dunn, Mrs. Jouette Shouse, .Mrs. William A. Roden- I berg, Mrs. William Corcoran Hill nnd Miss Alice Page, all of whom took turns in presiding. Others assisting in receiving inciuded I the wives of the members of the New York delegation in Congress, Mrs. How ard S. Reeside and Mrs. Isahelle Gif ford, of Newark, N. J., who is the house j guest of the hostess. Miss Amy Steiner, of Baltimore, will : be the guest over the week end of Miss ! Charlotte Harding, daughter of the ' Right Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop of i Washington. Miss Steiner will be the ' guest of the Bryn Mawr Club, of Wash ington, at its dinner Saturday evening. ' Miss Margaret Wilson has returned to the White House from Grove Park Inn, Asheville, N. C, where she spent ' several weeks. Mme. Jusserand is unable to keep her soeial engagements on account of her illness. Colonel William Eric Fowler enter tained at dinner this evening in compli ment to the United States diplomatic agent to Ca^iro, Harnpton Gary, and Mrs. Gary. Mrs. James S. Parker was at home ' informally this afternoon. Mrs. Parker has as house guests Mr. and Mrs. G. G. , Lansing, of Albany. Representative and Mrs. Thomas B. | Dunn, of New York, cntertained at I dinner in the Presidential suite at the Willard. Representative William B. McKinley and Miss Julia Mattis cntertained at dinner this evening. Mrs. Al red McGrath, of Passaic, N. J., is the guest of Mrs. Rudolph Kauff man at Airlie and will be at home with Mrs. Kauffman to-morrow after? noon. Mrs. T. W. Stubblefield was hostess at a beautiful Colonial luncheon to-day at her residence on Sixteenth Street. Her guests, numbering twelve, were seated at one large table adorned with a tricorn hat lilled with spring flowers and the place cards had Colonial ladies in bouffant gowns and white wigs painted on them. Mrs. Stubblefield will be hostess at a luncheon again Tuesday, March 2 when Mrs. Forbes, who is the house guest of Mrs. G. A. Nugent, will be the honor guest. Mrs. Meredith. wife of the Secretary of Agrieulture, will be at home Thurs? day, March 4, and the following Wednes? day from 4 to 6, at 1785 Massa : chusetts Avenue, when she will be as ; sisted in receiving bv her daughter ; Mrs. Frederick 0. Bohen, of New York Miss Naney Lane and her fiance, Philip C. Kauffmann, were the lunch? eon guests yesterday of Isador Dock weiler, of Culifornia, at the Shoreham. The Spanish Ambassador and Sehora de Riauo entertained at luncheon to? day at the embassy in honor of the noted Spanish author Seiior Vicente Blasco Ibanez, who is being brilliantly ; entertained during his visit here. Tho*'e i present included the members of the I embassy stafT and a few other guests i To-night Senor Ibanez dined wit> Mr i and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, who S had a party of twenty-four to meet him. Werrenrath Gives Annual Recital at New York University Reinald Werrenrath, barytone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, gave his annual song recital last evening in the Gould Memorial Chapel at the New York University. The concert was given under the auspices of the Campus Concert Course, established nine years ago by Mr. Wer? renrath, who is a graduate of the uni? versity. His program included: Itocltative?Oh, AVhen on That Great Day; aria, Blessed Iteaurrectlon Day \\ atch Ye. I'ray Ye. .John Sebastlan liach May Day Carol (Essex folksong) ar ranged by Deems Taylor. Over tho Illlls and Far Away (old Irlsh), arranged by William Aims risher. Occhiettl Amati.Andrea Falconlori Invocazlone dl Orfeo.Jacopo Perl ; Attento. Poldowskl Fromenade a .Mulr-.Felix Fourdraln !T;ur;;'.Maurlce Ravel Jlaudlto. a lat-ais solt la race ("Sam-' son ot Dalila").Saint Sar-ns Ibree salt water ballads (John Mase flcld): Port ot .Many Ships, Trade .... Vl 1?d?-1 Mother Carej.Frederlo Keel .'? :" 0"ld 1""1.Hamilton llarty lho Wrecli ot tlie Jutle Plante (Wil? liam H Drummond).. . .Geoffrey O'Hara JThe Bllnd Ploughman-Robert C. Clarko Yu!Vl-V-.Josephino McGill A Hymn for America.Harry Spler -e. Democrat Wins in Mi-souri JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Feb. 24.? Complete official returns received from the 3d Missouri Congressional District show that Captain Jacob L. Milligan, Democrat, was elected to Congress over John E. Frost, Republican, by a major? ity of 1,859. Milligan's vote was 13,919, and Frost's 12,000. "Jane Clegg" I8 Highest Mark of Theater Guikl Fine Performance of New Play by Ervdne atGarriok, With Margaret Wycherly nnd With Dudley Digges THE CAST Venry,,?,eKK.Dudley Difsgea Jane Cletrn.MnrKuret. Wycherly Jolmnic.Russell Hewttt irnn,pf;,.Jcan Ba-iey Mrs. C legg.Holpn We8?ey Mr. Morrmon.Erakine Sanford Mr- Munco.Henry Travers By Heywood Broun The production of St. John Ervine'a "Jane Clegg" i3 the finest achievement of the Theater Guild. It is a better play than "John Ferguson," and a bet? ter performance. Indeed, it seems to us that no play of the year has in spired so deft a cooperation throughout the entire east. To be sure, "Jane Clegg" has no sudden fiash of violcnt and tumultous emotion such as served to animate the best act of "John Fer? guson." It is more even, more sus tnincd and less theatrical. One is not even tempted to think of it in terms of acts, for more than anything else it succeeds in achieving a sense of close-knit unity The play tells the story of Jane Uegg. who did her best to make a go of marriage with a vulgar, philandering, gambling, lying husband. Not all of her best was voluntary. She would have left him once. but for the fact that she was absolutely dependent upon him. Later she inherited a bit of money from her uncle, but she took no advantage then of her opportunity ior freedom. She was willing to give Henry another chance. When Henry stole she was willing to save him from jail by paying back the money and going away to Canada with him. But when she found out even the rea sons which hc gave for his theft were lies and that he stole in order to run away with another woman, she finally had the courage to make the decision to break with him at once. It was a calm, cloan break. Jane was not rebel enough to exult at once in the freedom which had been forced upon her. She could not forget that for twelve years she had been mar? ried to an abaolute rotter, but at the very end of the play, when Henry shut the door for the last time, there was perhaps just a suggestion of a new lift to the shoulders of Jane Clegg as she went up the stairs of her home. This brief account may carry the suggestion that the play is'onc of those dull, drab things in which realism is interpreted to mean the painstakingly coinmonplace. Such an impression would be entirely falsc. No play of the season has been more richly e-ndowed with stirring humor. ln fact, the irony of the play is sometimes pushed so far, for all its logic, that the play assumes the form of a farce-tragedy, if there is such a thing. Though the play must be instantlv acquitted of being either dull or drab it is a little marred, as "John Fergu? son" was, by moments of pretentious and self-conscious realism. In the Irish play, as we rcmember it, tho hero on his way to jail remarked that it looked like rain; while in Jane Clegg the news that Henry had stokn money from his employer inspired the observation that things were getting a little colder. Wre might also have wished for a diminution in the num ber of times the children were put to bed and in the dishes which Jane Clegg had to cloar away in one scene. Nor are we moved to exclaim, "How true!" when Ervine provides that two out cf three acts should end with some body turning out the gas. However, these are incidental matters, for dur? ing the greater part of tho evening thu dramatist has not only been able to make his people do and say en edtime Stories By Thornton W. Burgcss Reddy Fox Plans to Get Even Said Reddy Fox, "There'II. come a day When those who laugh loill have to pay." Reddy Fox was in anything but a good tempcr. The truth is he was in very bad tempcr, very bad tempcr, in deed. You see. Sammy Jay had spread all through the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows the story of how Peter Rabbit had fooled Reddy. Wher? ever Reddy Fox went he was twitted and tsased about it. As you know, Reddy Fox had the name of being very, very smart. Reddy is very proud of his smartness, so it hurt his pride dread fully to be laughed at and told he wasn't as smart as Peter Rabbit. At first Reddy had thought that Samrr.y Jay had made up that story just to make him uncomfortable. He hadn't beheved a word of it. But just to make sure Reddy had gone over to the dear Old Briar-patch where Peter Rabbit and little Mrs. Peter had their home. Peenng through the hrambles he had diseovered Peter squatting comfortably under a thick bramble bush, where. he. was quite safe and knew it. "Where did Sammy Jay get that story there he lay down to think and plan. "I'll get even with that long-legged, long-eared, wabbly-nosed, short-tailed hunch of impudence," muttered Reddy. "I ccrtainly will get even with him. He can't set everybody to laughing at and poking fun at me without paying for it. I know Peter Rabbit from' the soles of his feet to the tins of his ears. For a few days he'll stick to the Old Briar-patch; then he'll forget all about my warning. His curiosity will be greater than his sense of cati'tion. He'll visit the Green Forest and the Old Orch*rd to find out what is going on. The thing for me to do is to keep out. of sight for a while. I'll give Peter Rabbit just about three days in the Old P.riar-patch. By that time he will have stayed at home just as long as he can. I know where he usually jumps over the i old stone wall on the edge of the Old Orchard. I'll just hide behind that old I wall and one of these fine nights Peter will jump over for the last time. A Rabbit dinner certainly will taste good." Reddy licked his lips hungrily. ////'. "He got it right ovt that you fooled me by keeping perfectly still right in plain sight?" demanded Reddy. Peter chuckied. "He got it right over here," said Peter, and then once more wished he had kept his tongue still, for into Reddy's eyes had blnzed a sudden look of anger which made Peter feel j most uncomfortable. "So you have been boasting that you I are smarter than I?" snarled Reddy.! 'J haven't bothered you for a long time, Peter Rabbit, but now watch out! You i may have fooled me, as you sav you did, but you won't fool me again. " It would ' have been better for you had you kept your tongue still. Just let me catch you , outside this miserable Old Briar-pa"tch and you'll never hmgh at me again or boast of how smart you are." "It isn't a miserable Old Briar-patch, it's a dear Old Briar-patch," retorted Peter, indignantly. "Grrrrr!" snanled Reddy Fox, and turned away. He headed straight for the Old Pasture, where his home is, and r here," said Peter As for Peter Rabbit, he was once more v.ishing he had kept his tongue still. Timid little Mrs. Peter gave him the scolding he richly deserved, and it made Peter fee! most urcomfortablc. It made him feel uncomfortable because he knew he richly deserved it. "I hope now, Peter Rabbit, that you will have sense enough to stay at home the rest of the winter," declared little Mrs. Peter. "I never have a minute of peace when you are away, but worry, worry, worry. I never know what foolish thing you may be doing. Here in the dee.r Old Briar-patch you are safe, and y.iu know that safety is the rirst law of life for us little people. There may be better things to eat over in the Green Forest or up in Farmer Brown's orchard, but what does a full siomach amount to if you lose your life to get it?'; (Copyrigkt, 1920, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: Reddy Lies in Wait. Do You Know THAT 4% of all the babies born alive in the U. S. A. die before they are one month old? Maternity Center Association 18 West 31th .Street Mins Mary I,. Davison Clinirninn Eiecutlve Committee I grossing things, but to provide furthcr i that these things shall seem just as 1 true as they seem humorous and poig j nant. j The part of Jane Clegg falls to Miss j Margaret Wycherly, who gives a bcau I tiful performance. She plays without whip and without spurs, and yet she makes the portrait of an imprisoned woman, vaguely and vainly sceking escape from a life which presses in '? upon her from every side, more truiy thrilling than any scene of bare hands hammering upon the panels of a locked door. At the end she gives with fine understanding and expression the min gled emotions of Jane in her linal break with Henry. Of Jane, as much as of any character in drama whom we can remember, it may be said, in tho words of Shaw, "When your heart is broken, your b,oats are burned; nothing mat ters any more. It is the end of happi nes.s and the bcginning of peace." Equally good is Dudlev Digges as I[C"",r,y' AU the unc?n?cious humor of ihe blatantly vulgar man whom he plays is telling in his interpretation. As the coward in "John Ferguson" Digges was extraordinarily successful in putting over a mixed impression of things laughable and things beyond that. Just so he humanizes Henry to an excusable degree. Without sentimentalizing over the poor rogue, he makes us realize that even in his basest deeds there is an understandable and a logical seek ing for joy. He was perhaps the Jrue '. on of his father, concerning whom one character reported that "he said it al i most broke his heart to be a Chris i tian." There also was delightfully telling work by Henry Travers as a bookmaker His scene with Digges in the first act is one of the most convincing and one of the most amusinpr that have been brought to the stacre this year. Helen Westley was decidedly inter esting in the role of Clegfr's "mother, s.nd there was a r;ood performance by Erskine Sanford as a virtuous em? ployee. The two children were good enough, though we have never yet seen a stage child in anv play who did not | make us think that there should be , more knowledge of birth control in the rcalm of a dramatist's fancy. ? Going On To-day DAY ? American Museum of Natural History: admlsslon free. Metropollttan Museum of Art; admission freo. >f American JIusr-um of Safety; admission free. I Van Cortlandt Park Museum; admlssion free. The Anuarlum: admlssion free. Zoologlcal Park; admlssion free. Meeting of the Xew YorU Wholesale Grocers1 Association, Hoti 1 Astor, 10 a. m. Entertalnment of tho Foster Mothera' As? sociation, Hotel Astor. 2 p. m. j Address by Dr. Hills Cole on "There Is No Splrit"; Dahal Llbrary, 115 Madlson Avenue, 4 i>. m. , Meeting and luncheon of the Electric Club, Waldorf-Astorla, II a. in. j Address by Professor Charles Seymour on "The Peace Settlement and Its Relatlon to Contemporary Problema"; Academy of Music, Brooklyn, 4 ).. m. Meeting of tho Metropoiitan District Mir ror Manufacturers' Association, tfole! Pennsj lvania, 3 p, m. Meeting of the Institute of lt:>,-id Condult Manufacturers, Hotel Pennsylvanla, 11 a. m. Meeting of the State CoIIor.^ of Agricul ture, Hotel Pennsylvanla, n a. m Meeting of the American lladiator Com? pany, Hotel Pennsylvanla, S:l". a. m.i luncheon, 12:30 p. m., and dinner, 0:30 p. ".i. Nuncheon of the Kiwanis Club, Hotel McAlpln, 12:30 p. tii. liU'ncheon of the Coated Textlle Manufac? turers, Hotel McAlpin, 12 :.".0 p. in. Mei ting of the Coated '!'? sllle Manufai - turers, Hotel McAlpin, 10:30 a. m. Lunnheon "f the Metropoiitan Paper Box Company, Hotel McAlpin, 12:30 p. m. XlfillT Lecture by Dr. William B. Guthrie on "What's Your Soul Bwn Dolng?" West Side V. M. C. A., 318 West Fifty eeventh Street, 9:15 p. m. Ueeting of th.-; Sphinx Club, Waldorf Astorla, 7 p. m. Locturo by Andro Tridon on "Hypnotlsm Versus Psychaonalysislsm," VIenna Hall, lo3 East Fifty-elghth Stre?-t. 8:30 p. m. Meeting of the Bronx Board of Trado 137th Street and Third Avenue, 8 p. m Dinner of the International Paper Com pany, Hotel McAlpln, 7 p. m. I ianer and dance of the Geba I.odge Hotel McAlpln, 7 p. m. Dinner of the Dartmnuth Alumni Assorla tion, Hotel Pennsylvania. Moeting of the American Gas Association Hotel Pennsylvania, S p. m. Lccture by Dr. Earl Barnes on "The World of To-morrow," Academy of Mui Ic, Brooklyn, 8:15 p. m. Meeting of the First Church nf Divlne Sciene.e, Waldorf-Astor, S p. m. Dinner of the Economic Club, Hotel Astor 7 p. m. Meeting of ihe Xatlonal Executive Com? mittee of the Fnlon of Orthodox Jewlsh Congregations of America. Spnnish and Portugueae Synagogue, Seventleth Street and Central Park West. HOA11D OF KXil CATIOX I.K< Tl RKS Manhattan "My Crulse on the Pacific," by Mrs An nctte Ewart; Public School 101, 111th Street and Dexlngton Avenue ' lllus trat.-d. "I.a Julve," by Clement B. Shaw- New york r.lbrary, 505 West 145th Street You Americans," by Ada Ward: y M C. A., 5 \v, st. 125th Street. ' : "Burke. the Friend of the American Cn\o nies. by Dr. Thomas McTiernan; Pub? lic School 40, Prospect Avenue and'Rit ter Place, tlie Bronx. "Alaska To-day," hy Frederick L. Peder- ; son; Public School 43, Brown Placo and 1.36th Street. Illustrated. "The New South," by C. J. Blanchard- I t loper Instltute, Eighth Street and Fourth Avenue. x-'\-'1\- ?>! ''Care of the Baby Blind," by Mrs. C. W. Alden, Central Jewlsh In stituto, 125 East Elghty-Hfth Street S^B:dIii :^.w ?>?% ? jj^BiiiiKl ENGLISH CHINA of tht XVlllth Century CHINA OF NANTGARW 1811-1821 Lewn Weiton Dillwyn, a bot amst of some notr, founded this factory a few miles south of Nantgarw in Wales. He was assisted by a porce latn decorator named i'cung. also by Billingsley, who hrlped make this factory famous through the "Bil! ingsley" roses. After pa:s mg through many vicissi tudes, it was later absorbed by the adjacent Swansca factory. Pieces of Nant? garw with the imprcssed mark and "Bilhngslev" rosrs can be se?n in Mr. Vernay s c^llection. Vernav 10, 12, 14 East 45th Street New York aWMMMlMIM^ Solution Is Found For Elgar Enigma After Many Years Riddle Concealed in 'Theme and VariatioIl8, of Com poser Believed to Be Mei ody of Motto in 'ParsifaF By H. E. Krehbiel There were only three composition3 on the program of the New Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon, but they were all master pieces,and though strongly contrasted in character, were arranged and plaved in a manner that captured fancy and feel ing at once and held them in thrall to the end. The pieces were Wagner's Preiude to "Die Meistersinger von Niiurnberg," Mozart's Concerto in D minor for pianoforte (the solo part played by Miss Guiomar Novaes), and the "Variations on an Original Theme," by Sir Edward Elgar. Nothing new in this scheme, and yet it provided not only a great pleasure but also food for reflection; how much we shall pro ceed to explain at once. Tho eomposition by Elgar has been in. local concert lists for neariy if not fully twenty years. It has been played often. though not as frequently as it deserves, foi-. in our opinion, it mark? the high tide of its author's creative imagination, in the instrument?l field at least. Whencver it has been nlayed the program annotator has called attention to the fact that it btars a sub-title, "Enigma," and that Sir Edward has attached to it a comment to the effect that though in it he had sought to sketch for their amusement and his , own tho idiosvnerasies of fourteen of j his friends, he attached no particular signifiennce to that fact, and wished the j music to stand as music simply. He , did, however, call attention to the fact '. (indicated in the sub-title) that he had i buried an enigma in the eomposition, ; whose "dark saying" must be "left un ; gucssed." Further to pique the curiosity of the : listeners, possibly also the critics, he ; added: "Through and over the whole ! set tof variations) another and larger I theme 'goes,' but is not played. So the j principal theme never appears, even as 1 :n some late dramas?e. g., Maeter ! linck's 'L'Intruse' and 'Des Sept Prin cesses'?the chief character is new on | the stage." The enigmatic theme was I thus made to appear as itself a varia tion or an outgrowth of one of those unheard melodies, those "spirit ditties of no ton?," which to the illogical fan i tasy of Keats seem sweeter than those which appeal to the sensual ear. Much brain cudgeling has been caused by the cryptical utterance, and r.o doubt many musicians in listening to th? bcautifiil work i for it is pro foundly and loftily beautiful) have tried to solve the riddle of the un sung theme. Mr. K. J. Buckley, one of Sir Edward's biographers, as Mr. Gilman's program note informed us yesterday, ventured the assertion that : "the theme is a counterpoint in some | well-known melody which is never : heard." Mr. Buckley also said that ; the coda to the piecc was added by ; the composer at the suggestion of Dr. j Hans Richter, who had received the : score in Vienna before he knew Elgar personally. He took the work on tour, ; and with it won England for Elgar. as thirty years before he had won Eng? land for Wagner with the "Tann hauser" overture. We confess that we have often tried ! to solve the ridd'e of this musical : Sphinx, but we're always balked by the bclicf that the heard theme was in some , way related to a melody of a national British character. Yesterday while lis? tening to the music there came a? sus picion, for which we believe we ound confirmation after a iook at the theme in print. For us at least the mystery is dispelled. The enigmatic subject of 1 the eomposition is the melody of the , oracular motto in "Parsifal." "Through pity. knowing, The blameless fool; Wait for him My chosen tool." The theme as varied is a counter? point on or parody of this melody. Arid now we wonder that the discovery was not made long ago. It may have been; but we never saw or heard of a record of the fact. , Mr. Bodanzky had evidently thrown himself heart and soul into the prep aration of the eomposition, and the performance, despite the handicap of a somewhat crude and ill-balanced band, was amazingly lucid and bril? liant. He gave a pompous, albeit a somewhat rapid, reading to Wagner's Preiude, and an exquisitely sym pathetic accompaniment to the piano? forte concerto, which Miss Novaes played with crystalline purity through? out and with particularly ravishing 'oveliness of tone in the Romanfca. The music will be repeated at this evening's concert. Artist Spurns $5,000,000 Englishman Rejerts Offer to Come to U. S. to Paint Portraits L0XD0N. Feb. 24. Sir William Orpen, the distinguished artist, has re fused an offer of ?1,000,000 for paint ing three hundred portraits. which is ^aid to have been made him by an American. "It is quite true the offer of ?1.000, 000 to paint portraits came to me from America." 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